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                                   6975
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 19, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing September
   twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Veteran
   Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day"

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 168-a of the executive law, as
 amended by chapter 237 of the laws  of  2020,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  The  following  days  shall be days of commemoration in each year:
 January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon  Day",  January  twenty-sev-
 enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", February fourth, to be
 known  as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan B.
 Anthony Day", February sixteenth, to be known as  "Lithuanian  Independ-
 ence  Day",  February  twenty-eighth, to be known as "Gulf War Veterans'
 Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day",  March  tenth,  to  be
 known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
 nam  Veterans'  Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW Recognition Day",
 April twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta  Scott  King  Day",  April
 twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
 in  May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", May seventeenth, to
 be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday  in  June,  to  be
 known  as  "Children's  Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
 pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans  Recognition
 Day",  June  nineteenth,  to  be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
 twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean  War  Veterans'  Day",  the  second
 Monday  in  July,  to  be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day", August
 twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twen-
 ty-sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality Day", September eleventh,  to
 be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be known as "Septem-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 ber  11th  Remembrance  Day", September thirteenth, to be known as "John
 Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the  State  of  New
 York",  September  seventeenth,  to  be  known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von
 Steuben  Memorial Day", SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SECOND, TO BE KNOWN AS "VETERAN
 SUICIDE AWARENESS AND REMEMBRANCE DAY", the third Friday in September to
 be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date
 of commemoration cannot be observed due to  a  religious  holiday,  such
 observances  shall  then be conducted on the second Friday of September,
 the last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of  1812  Day",  the
 fourth  Saturday  of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last
 Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star  Mothers'  Day",  October
 fifth,  to  be  known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be
 known as "New Netherland Day in the State of New  York",  October  eigh-
 teenth,  to  be known as "Disabilities History Day", October twenty-sev-
 enth, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day",  November  ninth,  to  be
 known  as  "Witness for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as
 "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to be  known
 as "New York State School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", Novem-
 ber thirtieth, to be known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December third, to
 be  known  as "International Day of Persons with Disabilities", December
 seventh, to be known as "Pearl Harbor Day", December  sixteenth,  to  be
 known  as "Bastogne Day" and that day of the Asian lunar calendar desig-
 nated as new year to be known as "Asian New Year".
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.